Abridge vs Lunatic - What's the difference?
abridge | lunatic |
(archaic) To deprive; to cut off.
(transitive, archaic, rare) To debar from.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
* The bridegroom ... abridged his visit. - Smollett
* She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. - Fuller
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
Cut short; truncate.
To curtail.
As a verb abridge
is (archaic) to deprive; to cut off .As a noun lunatic is
an insane person.As an adjective lunatic is
crazed, mad, insane, demented.abridge
English
Verb
(abridg)- He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.
